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company, insuring all of their cows for $25 each, and the prem¬ 
ium is only ten cents per cow per year. The insurance is 
against the cows being condemned to death on account of tu¬ 
berculosis by the State Board of Health. All cows giving- 
milk that is sold in Minneapolis are eligible to insurance, and 
no other cause of death is recognized, the order for destruction 
signed by the proper official being necessary before the $25 
will be paid. The amount may not be large, but $25 and the 
hide are a whole lot better than the hide alone to show for a 
cow.—( Breeder's Gazetted) 
Sanmetto in Genito-Urinary Troubles of the Horse 
and Dog. —“ I have used an excellent remedy, Sanmetto, in 
cystitic, impotency and chronic nephritis; also hsematuria, and 
in all genito-urinary troubles in a dog, in teaspoonful doses, 
with the most satisfactory results. I have used one dozen bot¬ 
tles of Sanmetto this spring, on that number of horses, suffer¬ 
ing with that most dreaded disease, azoturia, in 3 ss doses, every 
four hours, in water q. s. Oss. They all got well except one, 
and she died in two hours after I saw her. All were down ex¬ 
cept one. I consider Sanmetto the best of any medicine I have 
ever used in those troubles, and shall continue to use it, and 
recommend it to all, for Sanmetto is a grand reined yd ’— D.J. 
Smith, V. S. {Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College), Bar re, 
Vermont. 
Government Veterinarians at Buffalo. —The follow¬ 
ing veterinarians are now engaged in the Federal Meat Inspec¬ 
tion service at Buffalo, N. Y. : Dr. Clias. H. Zink, Inspector in 
charge of the station ; Dr. B. P. Wende looks after the inspec¬ 
tion of cattle in the New York Central Stock Yards, and all 
cattle imported from Canada, while in the same yards Dr. 
John P. O’Leary attends to the sheep interest and the dipping of 
the same. Dr. L. A. Robinson ably looks after the hog yards, 
and has become an expert in the detection of the diseases that 
hog flesh is heir to, while all horses intended for export must 
pass the inspection of Dr. H. M. Ball. At Abattoir No. 42, Dr. 
John H. McNeil ably looks after the post-mortem work on cat¬ 
tle and sheep. Dr. W. N. D. Bird attends to similar duties in 
the hog room. Dr. A. F. Martins has charge of the microscopic 
inspection force. Dr. H. R. Ryder looks after the calves and 
sheep that are slaughtered at Abattoir No. 190. 
Passing of the Automobile. — The ultra-automobile 
dailies, of which the New York Herald was easily the leader, 
are gradually finding out the error into which they so precipit- 
